vk6flab

vk6flab, 20 days ago

If it’s like any other Facebook monstrosity, the processes that “detect” such things are purely based around USA morals and values, such as they are.

In other words, show a nipple and the thing is gone. Show something racist and it’s fine as long as it doesn’t show a nipple.

In Australia FB doesn’t care one iota about highly offensive content towards first nations people, perfectly fine with permitting the Australian equivalent of the USA “N” word, just as long as it doesn’t show a nipple.

Oh, yeah, the banned nipple has to be attached to a female, preferably white caucasian. The rest seems fine, especially in an “indigenous setting”.

In other words, FB only cares about its USA morality police and is perfectly fine with extracting money from everyone else, regardless of local sensitivities.

LinkedIn is the same. Not sure if that happened after Microsoft bought it, because until then it was not really a social media site, even if it did horrible things with extracting contacts from unsuspecting users who discovered that everyone in their address book had been invited, even if they were on the address book block list.

vk6flab, 12 days ago

Your last sentence is the answer.

Posting and sharing your experiences is how this gets fixed.

vk6flab, 9 days ago

You used to be able to run Apple Music on Android. I used it for a while. Not sure if it still exists.

vk6flab, 13 days ago

A better headline:

“Visitor to Taiwan attempts to break biosecurity law and is hit with a fine”

vk6flab, 10 days ago

I’m fairly certain that it was ChatGPT, but I’m going from memory. I have a hunch that I saw a Hacker News show and tell post.

Update: It was in my bookmarks.

www.kaggle.com/…/89k-chatgpt-conversations

vk6flab, 11 days ago

Not just burnout, opportunism features with several users I’ve spoken with. The level of ignorance surrounding ChatGPT is staggering.

One egregious use I know of was a developer who used it to write software to analyse a government dataset despite their department having put in place specific and targeted restrictions specifically against any such activities.

Their workaround was to use their private email to exfiltrate data and subsequently introduce the code.

Their rationale was that it didn’t harm anyone and their ICT department would vet any code. They were not concerned about this private data showing up on the ChatGPT public log, nor were they concerned about the accuracy of their code.

I think that this is just the tip of the iceberg and I think it’s going to take a serious data breach of identifying information before people lose their jobs over this type of misuse.

vk6flab, 10 days ago

For a period the interactions you had with ChatGPT were public and a live stream was available.

At the time when I looked at it, there was an astonishing amount of non-english traffic, but that might have been due to the fact that my UTC+8 timezone in Perth is the same as mainland China.

I had a quick search just now to see if I could find a link, but all I can locate is posts about new privacy controls, so perhaps that "feature"went by the wayside at some point.

vk6flab, 8 days ago

www.kaggle.com/…/89k-chatgpt-conversations

vk6flab, 11 days ago

I’d email it as an attachment.

In Australia the local post office has fax facilities.

vk6flab, 11 days ago

The comments here in relation to the arcane nature of fax machines might not be aware that often this relates to legal requirements to receive physical proof.

Interestingly, nobody has to my knowledge challenged the wisdom of this requirement in court. At the end of the day, there is no real way to prove your identity using either a letter or a fax.

Using email, you could exchange an electronic key in person and know that the sender has the agreed key. Note that it still doesn’t prove the identity of the sender.

vk6flab, 10 days ago

Wow, those comments are a dumpster fire.

Not sure what Derek 's best response might be. I’m thinking that this video will likely be taken down and replaced by one without a sponsor.

vk6flab, 9 days ago

ARRL statements:

• www.arrl.org/…/arrl-systems-service-disruption

Suggestions that the ARRL “incident” is considerably more significant:

• w2lj.blogspot.com/…/interesting-speculation.html

LoTW status page:

• status.lotw.arrl.org

I also note that I received a response from the ARRL that instructed me to read their announcement linked above.

vk6flab, 5 days ago

It doesn’t. I recall an experiment a few decades ago where they turned the world upside down. Didn’t take participants long to “normalise” the image.

When they removed the experiment, took even shorter to flip back.

I seem to recall it being done in a train carriage, as art, but I’m not sure.

vk6flab, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Are the people who work at OpenAI smoking crack?

“Over the last year and a half there have been a lot of questions around what might happen if influence operations use generative AI,” Ben Nimmo, principal investigator on OpenAI’s Intelligence and Investigations team, told members of the media in a press briefing

Here’s a clue, look around you.

ChatGPT isn’t the only fish in the sea and state actors using a public service like it deserve to be caught. Running your own system privately, without scrutiny, without censorship, without constraints is so trivial that teenagers are doing this on their laptops, so much so that you can docker pull your way into any number of LLM images.

Seriously, this is so many levels of absurd that it’s beyond comprehension…

vk6flab, 1 month ago

It’s a shame that Signal has discontinued its support for normal SMS, hadn’t implemented RCS, is spending too much effort on “stickers” and now keeps prodding you to donate money. Then there’s the broken notification with iOS users who just don’t find out that you messaged them until they launch the app.

As a direct result my use of Signal has pretty much ceased.

vk6flab, 1 month ago

If you think that will protect you, there is a lot for you to learn…

vk6flab, 27 days ago

I’ve noticed a sharp increase in spam and I’ve been reporting each one simply as “spam”.

I then block the user

Many of these posts have dozens of down votes.

Several go back months, which I discover when a new variant turns up.

I’m unsure if what I’m doing is helping or not, and as an ICT professional, I’m not sure why this obvious spam isn’t caught earlier.

vk6flab, 19 days ago

Can’t wait to read the headlines in 20 years:

“My 401Kids account was hacked and now I start with nothing”

And

“Dad uses 401Kids account used for hookers and blow”

And

"Buy now, save later, 401Kids account available for lay-by purchases "

vk6flab, 10 days ago

A magnetic loop is literally just a loop with a tuning capacitor at the feed point.

There should be several to be found on the ftroop website. ftroop.vk6flab.com

vk6flab, 12 days ago

Yes and no.

At the frequencies that HDMI operates, the path a signal takes can interfere with that signal. It’s why sometimes a cheap HDMI cable causes issues, where one certified for 4K or 8K doesn’t - the requirements to carry more information, means higher frequencies and thus better shielding.

A connector is a potential location where signal can be affected if the connection between two conductors is poor.

In general, less connectors and less joins will give you a higher chance of success and less chance of interference, but it depends entirely on what type of distance and signal you’re trying to send across it.

In general, the shorter the connection, the less loss.

It might be that a single longer cable is worse than a connector and a short cable.

If you already have a connector and a HDMI cable, try it. If you have issues, start by reversing the HDMI cable. It won’t make the electrons reverse or anything like that, but the connection might be slightly different.

If you have neither, I’d get a cable without a join. Buy from people who take returns.

Budget will be the determining factor for most people.

TL;DR; try it.

vk6flab, 9 days ago

You realise that this is because Microsoft spent billions of dollars on what amounts to a new version of “Clippy” and it’s just as helpful as the original.

If you’re unfamiliar with the abomination, it’s a dumber version of Copilot.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant

vk6flab, 8 days ago

Yeah, “Microsoft helpful”, not actually helpful.

vk6flab, 8 days ago

The 2FA codes are just images. You can save them where you like. No requirement to backup your 2FA “to the cloud”.

Just make sure that your storage is backed up.